{"id":27,"date":"2017-09-12T17:33:10","date_gmt":"2017-09-12T17:33:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/?page_id=27"},"modified":"2018-05-25T11:02:12","modified_gmt":"2018-05-25T15:02:12","slug":"films-and-filmmakers-spring-2016","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.montclair.edu\/film-forum\/speaker-series\/films-and-filmmakers-series-archives\/films-and-filmmakers-spring-2016\/","title":{"rendered":"Films and Filmmakers Spring 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"
<\/a>\u00a0Jan 26<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Feb 2<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Feb 9<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Feb 16<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Feb 23<\/a>\u00a0|Mar 1<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Mar 15<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Mar 22<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Mar 29<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Apr 5<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Apr 12<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0Apr 19<\/a>\u00a0|Apr 26<\/a>\u00a0(April 26 event is not open to the public).<\/p>\n <\/a>JAN 26 – JEREMY WORKMAN (documentary filmmaker)<\/strong><\/p>\n SCREENING –\u00a0MAGICAL UNIVERSE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u200c Step into the unique and visionary world of lifetime outsider artist Al Carbee, an 88-year old eccentric who spends his days creating outlandish works of art featuring Barbie dolls. Filmmaker Jeremy Workman has spent over a decade with his friend Carbee, compiling extensive footage and memories to provide audiences with a window into the magical universe of Carbee\u2019s bizarre creative force and a glimpse of an otherwise unknown artist\u2019s lifelong body of work. Learn more at\u00a0magicaluniversefilm.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n Jeremy Workman’s narrative and documentary films have screened at over 60 film festivals in more than 10 countries. His award-winning shorts and documentaries\u00a0Who is Henry Jaglom?<\/em>\u00a0Claire Makes it Big<\/em>, and\u00a0One Track Mind<\/em>\u00a0have played at such esteemed film festivals as Tribeca, Hamptons, Slamdance, Melbourne, AFI, and MOMA’s Documentary Fortnight.<\/p>\n \u201cThe subject of Jeremy Workman\u2019s\u00a0Magical<\/em>\u00a0Universe<\/em>\u00a0isn\u2019t really an established quantity in the world of outsider art, leaving the audience to form its own impressions of the endearing yet enigmatic Carbee.\u201d\u2013\u00a0TIME Magazine\/Lightbox<\/em><\/p>\n [back to top<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>FEB 2 – BEN DOLPHIN (director, cinematographer, and choreographer)<\/strong><\/p>\n SCREENING –\u00a0ARISING TRILOGY<\/em>\u00a0(short films) and a selection of commercial work<\/strong><\/p>\n The\u00a0Arising Trilogy<\/em>\u00a0are liquid-inspired films, which took six years to create, featuring the shorts\u00a0Arising<\/em>,\u00a0On Arising<\/em>, and\u00a0Arisen<\/em>. Ben\u2019s work combines art, science and advertising. A native New Yorker, he directs and shoots Tabletop & Live Action TV Commercials on five continents. World renown for High Speed Liquids, he also shoots cosmetics, food, fashion, beauty, gold & diamond jewelry, pharmaceuticals and Live Action.<\/p>\n A master of High Speed and all Effects Driven Visuals, he is accomplished in blending Live Action and CGI Elements. Ben, also a Certified Steadicam operator is highly experienced with Motion Control and advanced product and camera rigs. Additionally, he is a 3D\/Stereo Imaging Specialist certified by Sony and Panasonic.<\/p>\n Ben\u2019s work has won 2 Emmys, an Addy and a Silver AD&D award. His work is characterized by a powerful sense of energy and design in movement. His dance background as a choreographer influences his commercial work. He choreographs strong and subtle interactions between camera, talent, product and lighting. His work demonstrates a consistent level of quality and depth of experience in filming liquids very few can rival. His choreography for camera elicits genuine performances from talent and objects.<\/p>\n Ben also directs Documentaries and Dance Films that have been featured in the Lincoln Center Dance on Camera Festival and the New Museum of Contemporary Art in NYC. Having been in the companies of Alvin Ailey and Twyla Tharp, he danced at Lincoln Center in 2013, 2014, 2015 with the Buglisi Dance Theatre. The Harkness Dance Center, NYC recently featured his dance films and commercial work.<\/p>\n [back to top<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>FEB 9 – JEREMY KAPLAN (co-director and cinematographer)<\/strong><\/p>\n SCREENING –\u00a0A WILL FOR THE WOODS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u200c What if our last act could be a gift to the planet? Determined that his final resting place will benefit the earth, musician, psychiatrist, and folk dancer Clark Wang prepares for his own green burial while battling lymphoma. The spirited Clark and his partner Jane, boldly facing his mortality, embrace the planning of a spiritually meaningful funeral and join with a compassionate local cemetarian to use green burial to save a North Carolina woods from being clear-cut.<\/p>\n With poignancy and unexpected humor, the documentary\u00a0A Will for the Woods<\/em>\u00a0portrays the last days of a multifaceted advocate \u2013 and one community’s role in the genesis of a revolutionary movement. As the film follows Clark’s dream of leaving a legacy in harmony with timeless cycles, environmentalism takes on a profound intimacy.<\/p>\n Jeremy Kaplan (Co-Director\/Cinematographer)\u00a0received his B.A. from Boston College in Film and Philosophy and his M.A. in Documentary\/Media Studies at The New School. His documentary work has brought him across the globe to Costa Rica, Egypt, and South Korea with topics ranging from the environmental impact of American corporations in Costa Rica to a portrait of a progressive New York Orthodox Jewish community. The years spent on\u00a0A Will for the Woods\u00a0<\/em>have been his most gratifying work yet, due to the moving subject matter and the collaborative nature of the project.<\/p>\n [back to top<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em>\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>FEB 16 – Thomas Allen Harris (documentary filmmaker)<\/strong><\/p>\n SCREENING –\u00a0THROUGH A LENS DARKLY: BLACK PHOTOGRAPHERS AND THE EMERGENCE OF A PEOPLE<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Through A Lens Darkly: Black Photographers and the Emergence of a People\u00a0<\/em>is about contemporary artists probing the recesses of the American dream by interrogating images of stories suppressed, forgotten and lost.\u00a0The film brings to light previously hidden and largely unknown images by both professional and vernacular African American photographers which add to our understanding of history by providing a window into lives, experiences and perspectives of Black families that is absent from the traditional historical canon.<\/p>\n The documentary draws inspiration from the work of Marlon Riggs, particularly his ground-breaking\u00a0Tongues Untied<\/em>, in its assembly of a diverse yet focused community of storytellers to follow and transform a singular journey into a communal journey of discovery and a call to action.\u00a0Through A Lens Darkly<\/em>\u00a0highlights Carrie Mae Weems, Lorna Simpson, Anthony Barboza, Hank Willis Thomas, Coco Fusco and Clarissa Sligh; in addition to LGBT artists of color, such as Lyle Ashton Harris, Glenn Ligon, Lola Flash and Carla Williams, who are rethinking the archive and its relevance to issues of identity and representation. The film was awarded the 2015 NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Documentary Film, an Africa Movie Academy Award for Best Diasporic Documentary, and Fund for Santa Barbara Social Justice Award.<\/p>\n Thomas Allen Harris is the founder and President of Chimpanzee Productions, a company dedicated to producing unique audio-visual experiences that illuminate the Human Condition and the search for identity, family, and spirituality. Chimpanzee\u2019s innovative and award-winning documentary films have received critical acclaim at International film festivals such as Sundance, Berlin, Toronto, FESPACO, Outfest, Flaherty and Cape Town and have been broadcast on PBS, the Sundance Channel, ARTE, as well as CBC, Swedish broadcasting Network and New Zealand Television. Mr. Harris\u2019 experimental videos and installations have been featured at museums and galleries including the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Biennial, Corcoran Gallery, Reina Sophia, London Institute of the Arts and the Long Beach Museum of Art.<\/p>\n [back to top<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>FEB 23 – LALITHA GOPALAN and ANUJ VAIDYA<\/strong><\/p>\n SCREENING –\u00a0OTHER SPECIES , OTHER TIMES: NEW VIDEO ART FROM INDIA<\/em>, curated by Lalitha Gopalan and Anuj Vaidya<\/strong> Anuj Vaidya will be present at the screening and will speak about experimental and non-narrative filmmaking, media practices that engage the porous borders of art and film, the possibilities of digital media, and making work under a climate of censorship. He is an artist\/filmmaker who lives between the US and India, and who works in the cusp between film and performance. He is also a media curator, one of the co-directors of the\u00a03rd i South Asian Film Festival<\/em>\u00a0in San Francisco, and teaches queer studies in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies Program at 精品成人福利在线 University. Apart from co-curating this series, Anuj was also one of the cinematographers on the video\u00a0Between the Waves<\/em>\u00a0which will be screened in this program.<\/p>\n In a reversal of exhibition practices, this program lines up single channel video art and installations in a repertory film space and suggests novel ways of considering bodies in movement. These bodies are neither discrete nor constant; they challenge borders and boundaries and prefer entanglements with other species and other kinds. Varied in their consideration of the digital and in their use of performance practices, the works are primarily by artists living in Mumbai, Goa, and New Delhi.<\/p>\n A woman lies amongst pigeons in a public plaza in\u00a0Logic of Birds<\/em>, her body hospitable to their pecking and fluttering; man and bird merge in a play between painting and video in\u00a0Man with Cockerel<\/em>; an island sets the stage for bodies becoming other in\u00a0Fjaka<\/em>; and melting ice clocks the duration of a row in\u00a0Iceboat<\/em>. These performances of time and in space offer new utopias: a universe inhabited by myth and desire is the setting for the queer eco-fable\u00a0Between the Waves<\/em>; ancient ruins and spaceships offer a promise of time and space travel in the\u00a0Forerunner<\/em>; and a landscape comes to life in the liminal time between digital and analog in\u00a0Night<\/em>\u00a0Noon<\/em>.<\/p>\n Click here for a complete list of films in the program<\/a>.<\/a><\/p>\n [back to top<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>MAR 1 – JENNIE LIVINGSTON (documentary filmmaker)<\/strong><\/p>\n SCREENING –\u00a0PARIS IS BURNING<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Location: University Hall, Room 1070, 7:00 p.m.<\/strong><\/p>\n Q&A with director with professor Anuj Vaidya, professor of Gender, Sexuality, and Women’s Studies<\/strong><\/p>\n The event is co-sponsored with the LGBTQ Center, Gender, Sexuality and Women’s Studies, and the President’s Commission of Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity and Diversity.<\/strong><\/p>\n Paris Is Burning<\/em>\u00a0is a 1990 American\u00a0documentary film\u00a0directed by\u00a0Jennie Livingston. Filmed in the mid-to-late 1980s, it chronicles the\u00a0ball culture\u00a0of\u00a0New York City\u00a0and the\u00a0African-American,\u00a0Latino,\u00a0gay, and\u00a0transgender\u00a0communities involved in it. Some critics consider the film to be an invaluable documentary of the end of the “Golden Age” of New York City drag balls, and a thoughtful exploration of race, class, gender, and sexuality in America.<\/p>\n The film has become a seminal work among LGBTQ and Gender studies programs to discuss and debate.<\/p>\n Our screening of this film would include a Q&A with the Director facilitated by Anuj Vaidya, a professor in the Gender, Sexuality, and Women\u2019s Studies program. The Event is also sponsored by the LGBTQ Center and the Filmmaking Program.<\/p>\n [back to top<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>MAR 15 – THE REAL WOMEN OF FILM<\/strong><\/p>\n A distinguished\u00a0panel of highly creative and successful women working in the film industry will discuss their professional journeys with Associate Professor of Filmmaking Lise Raven. Featuring writer\/director Deborah Goodwin (Cherrys, Vampires in Venice, The Pastor<\/em>), editor Carla Gutierrez (La Corona, Ella Es Matador<\/em>), producer\/director\/writer Deborah Kampmeier (Virgin<\/em>,\u00a0Hounddog<\/em>), documentary producer\/director Chiemi Karasawa (The Betrayal,\u00a0Harry Dean Stanton: Partly Fiction, Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me<\/em>), and cinematographer Cybel Martin (Orange<\/em>\u00a0Bow<\/em>,\u00a0Sangam<\/em>). The event will also include a screening of short clips from each panelist’s film.<\/strong><\/p>\n Location: Memorial Auditorium, Life Hall, 7:00 p.m.\u00a0<\/strong>(find Memorial Auditorium on the campus map<\/a>)<\/p>\n Register for the event here<\/strong><\/a>.<\/p>\n ____________________________________<\/p>\n DEBORAH GOODWIN, writer\/director of\u00a0The Pastor<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Deborah Goodwin is a Brooklyn-based writer and filmmaker. Born in Manchester, England, raised in the Montreal art scene, graduate of Dawson College’s drama department and the American Musical and Dramatic Academy, Los Angeles refugee; (where she went to the AFI for screen writing and worked at USA Networks, CBS kids programming, CAA’s basement and Sanford-Pillsbury Productions as head of development). A Film Independent screenwriter’s and producer’s lab alumni, Urbanworld Film Festival Best Screenplay award winner for her family drama,\u00a0Cherrys<\/em>. Deborah’s micro-budget feature that she wrote, produced and directed,\u00a0Vampires<\/em>\u00a0in\u00a0<\/em>Venice<\/em>, a horror\/fable, with Bill Cobbs (Night At The Museum) had its sales debut at Cannes Market 2011. Her second feature, as a writer-director, is\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Pastor<\/em>, an inspirational action-drama with a largely Latino cast led by Arturo Muyshondt in the title role, Angelic Zambrana (Precious<\/em>), Victoria Cartagena, (Gotham<\/em>) Franky G (Power<\/em>) Micah Hauptmann (Everest<\/em>) was released in January, 2016, nationwide with WolfGang Cinema. Deborah is already developing her next feature and serves as a Film Fatales Fiction chapter leader in New York.<\/p>\n ____________________________________<\/p>\n CARLA GUTIERREZ – editor of\u00a0La Corona<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Carla Gutierrez is an award-winning documentary editor. She edited the Oscar-nominated documentary,\u00a0La Corona<\/em>\u00a0for HBO, which won Honorable Mention at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival. Carla also edited\u00a0Ella Es\u00a0Matador\/She\u00a0Is The Matador<\/em>, which was broadcast on PBS\u2019s P.O.V. in 2009. It premiered at the Silverdocs Film Festival and won Best Documentary Work-in-Progress at the Tribeca All Access Program. She began her career as the second editor on\u00a0The Fall of Fujimori<\/em>, (Sundance, POV, 2005) and received a Masters in Documentary Film and Video from Stanford University in California.<\/p>\n ____________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n DEBRA KAMPMEIER – director of\u00a0Hounddog<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Deborah Kampmeier\u2019s second feature film\u00a0Hounddog<\/em>, was nominated for the Grand Jury Prize at the 2007 Sundance Film Festival. It won the top jury prize, Best of the Show, at the 2009 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto. The film stars Dakota Fanning, Robin Wright Penn, Piper Lauri and David Morse. Deborah\u2019s first feature film\u00a0Virgin<\/em>, which she made for $5,000 was nominated for two 2004 Independent Spirit Awards, the John Cassavetes Award and the Best Female Lead for Elisabeth Moss\u2019 performance in the film. In addition, Kampmeier won Best Screenwriter at the 2003 Hamptons International Film Festival.\u00a0Virgin<\/em>\u00a0garnered Best Feature Film at the 2003 Female Eye Film Festival in Toronto, won Best Independent Spirit at the Santa Fe Film Festival and Best Actress at the Sedona Film Festival.\u00a0Virgin<\/em>\u00a0had its world premiere at the 2003 IFP Los Angeles Film Festival. Deborah is currently in post-production for\u00a0SPLiT<\/em>, the story of one woman\u2019s mythic journey to claim her own darkness and stop putting it into the hands of her abusive lover. Starring Amy Ferguson, Morgan Spector and Anna Mouglalis. Deborah is the founder of Full Moon Films, a company dedicated to the development and production of films by and about women.<\/p>\n ____________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n CHIEMI KARASAWA – producer, and director of\u00a0Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Chiemi Karasawa is an award-winning producer who founded Isotope Films in 2005 to develop and produce content based on true stories. She won an Emmy Award in 2010 for Ellen Kuras\u2019 epic\u00a0The<\/em>\u00a0Betrayal<\/em>\u00a0(Nerakhoon), which was also an Oscar Nominee in 2009.\u00a0Billy the Kid<\/em>\u00a0(2008), a portrait of an adolescent with Asperger\u2019s Syndrome won the prize for Best Documentary at SXSW Film Festival, LA Film Festival, Edinburgh Film Festival and the Melbourne International Film Festival and was subsequently released theatrically and on HBO. Additional films include:\u00a0Tell Them Anything You Want<\/em>:\u00a0Portrait<\/em>\u00a0of Maurice Sendak<\/em>\u00a0(2009), directed by Spike Jonze for HBO;\u00a0Elevate<\/em>\u00a0(2011), a story of a Senegalese basketball academy;\u00a0Love<\/em>\u00a0Etc<\/em>. (2011), about five New York love stories, and\u00a0Harry Dean Stanton<\/em>:\u00a0Partly Fiction<\/em>\u00a0(Venice Film Festival Official Selection 2012). The award winning\u00a0Elaine Stritch: Shoot Me<\/em>\u00a0is her directorial debut.<\/p>\n ______________________________________________<\/strong><\/p>\n CYBEL MARTIN – cinematographer<\/strong><\/p>\n \u200c\u200c\u200c Cinematographer Cybel Martin (Orange<\/em>\u00a0Bow<\/em>,\u00a0Sangam<\/em>)\u00a0is a bi-coastal Director of Photography. Her films have premiered at Sundance, TriBeCa, Toronto and Berlin Film Festivals. She has shot commercials for Timberland Apparel, Reebok, Sony and L’Oreal; TV programs for ESPN, Netflix, NatGeo and Centric\/BET. She’s been featured in\u00a0Fader\u00a0<\/em>Magazine<\/em>,\u00a0American<\/em>\u00a0Cinematographer<\/em>\u00a0Magazine<\/em>\u00a0and most recently in\u00a0Fast\u00a0<\/em>Company<\/em>\u00a0for her work shooting\u00a0Virtual<\/em>\u00a0Reality<\/em>. She writes about cinematography for\u00a0Indiewire.com<\/a>.<\/p>\n [back to top<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>MAR 22 – LIZ HINLEIN (director and cinematographer)<\/strong><\/p>\n SCREENING –\u00a0OTHER PEOPLE’S CHILDREN<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n \u200c Reeling from the death of her famous father (Scott Patterson), filmmaker Samantha Trassler (Diane Marshall-Green) falls down the rabbit hole of PK (Chad Michael Murray), a charismatic homeless man who becomes the subject of her latest documentary. She is at loose ends until P.K. gives her renewed purpose. Their affair, however, threatens to tear apart the fabric of both of their lives.<\/p>\n Liz Hinlein is an award winning director and cinematographer. Her films have been featured in film festivals around the world including The Berlin Film Festival, Hamptons International Film Festival, Blackwatch Film Festival among others. She has traveled around the world directing commercials for Fortune 500 companies and is currently one of four directors selected for the Viacom TV Directing program. She has a BFA from NYU Tisch School of the Arts and an MFA from The American Film Institute.<\/p>\n [back to top<\/a>]\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n <\/a>MAR 29 – WILL SWEENEY (producer and writer)<\/strong><\/p>\n SCREENING –\u00a0BACK ON BOARD: GREG LOUGANIS<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n Location: University Hall, Room 1040, 7:00 p.m.<\/strong> Moderated by\u00a0Kelly Whiteside,\u00a0Assistant Professor of Sports Media and Journalism,\u00a0School of Communication and Media.<\/strong><\/p>\n Co-sponsored with the LBGTQ Center. Register for the event here.<\/a><\/p>\n Back on Board: Greg Louganis<\/em>\u00a0is an intimate portrait of the public triumphs and\u00a0private struggles of trailblazing openly gay athlete Greg Louganis.<\/p>\n A refreshingly candid documentary film about this four-time Olympic champion,\u00a0Back on Board<\/em>\u00a0follows Greg Louganis over the past three years as he struggles with financial security and reunites with the sport he once dominated but not welcomed in. The threat of losing his house during the recent financial crisis forces Louganis to re-evaluate the choices, relationships, and missed opportunities of his career.<\/p>\n With unprecedented access, the film reveals the complicated life of an athlete whose grace, beauty and courage sparked a worldwide fascination with diving. It chronicles Louganis\u2019 rise from a difficult upbringing to nearly universal acclaim as the greatest diver ever, and from pioneering openly gay athlete with HIV to an overlooked sports icon.\u00a0Back on Board<\/em>\u00a0is the engrossing story of an American legend as he re-emerges on the world stage to combat prejudice, promote tolerance, and return to the diving world after a long period of absence to act as a mentor to the next generation.<\/p>\n Will Sweeney is a writer, producer, and director based in New York City. Will was a producer on the award-winning\u00a0The Royal Tenenbaums<\/em>\u00a0and has worked in production and development at Miramax Films and Walt Disney Pictures. With an emphasis on story and character development, Sweeney has worked on dozens of major motion pictures including\u00a0Rounders<\/em>,\u00a0Cider House Rules<\/em>, and\u00a0The Squid and<\/em>\u00a0the<\/em>\u00a0Whale<\/em>.\u00a0Learn more about the film at\u00a0louganisdoc.com<\/a><\/p>\n
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